Yes! Also in the kindest way possible: If you're new to Victorian Gothic novels, the book IS "slow" by modern standards, so come prepared. Slow-build narrative prose and deep psychological analysis over many chapters, with either subtle or more poignant foreshadowing, *with the elements of daily Victorian life and phraseology to immerse the reader into that era,* is what makes the genre shine. Even "The Spectacles" by Poe, a more lighthearted work, proves these methods are indispensable.